will the gtx 780 work good on my motherboard

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megaballzdeep

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so im upgrading my graphics card and was wondering if the 780 will work just fine on my motherboard. i assume it will but just want some opinions on if i should upgrade it or not.im not the best at guessing when tech will be outdated and i know now days it goes fast so i basically want to know if i will need to upgrade in the next year or so for newer cards like the 780 or the new amd cards or if it will still work good with current cards like the 7970ghz. current motherboard is asus m5a99fx pro r2.0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851
 
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drtoast

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It should be fine, Its part of the first gen of cards that really start to use a 3.0 slot. It will run easily in the 2.0 but you may lose some 6% of capability I believe it was.

On the otherhand, I dont think there are any AMD boards out in the main market that support PCIe 3.0 slots anyway (I believe there is one almost out or has been out two days but on limited availability. So Don't worry about it. Its not really worth Upgrading your motherboard for this card gen. Save it for the next one, or one after :p
 
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The whole Radeon HD 7000 series supports PCIe 3.0. So does the Geforce 600 series. It's just that most of those cards don't actually perform any different on PCIe 3.0 x16 than PCIe 2.0 x16.

It does matter in SLI/Crossfire though, because the difference is more important when you only have 8 or 4 lanes available.
 
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I know, I said that really uses.... not the first that supports, but the first that just start edging on being able to use more than a pcie2. The OP has not mentioned using it in SLI so I didn't speak of it. And its a moot point anyway on a AMD board, as they dont use them yet.
Don't correct what isn't wrong.
 
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You actually did write support, not really use. Though I guess you may have been referring to motherboards.
 
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